Re: [xmlvm-users] Licence issues

[Inderjeet S. <ind...@gm...>]

Hi Arno,

I hope the XMLVM team is maintaining copyrights appropriately to preserve
their ability to grant linking exception or offer XMLVM under dual license.
When you are accepting external contributions, are you asking them to assign
copyrights to you as well (A fairly standard practice with company sponsored
open-source projects).
Inder


On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Gergely Kis <ger...@ma...>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 2009/10/7 Arno Puder <ar...@pu...>
>
>>
>> well, Bjoern, as a quick note to your comment: you can never prevent
>> someone making money with your contribution to an Open Source project.
>> This is nothing unique to a dual licensing strategy. Redhat makes a lot
>> of money using other's peoples work. Of course they provide a service on
>> top of the packaging. That would be the same for us. I don't think
>> anyone would just give money to the core team without asking for
>> something in return (and by that I mean more than the linking
>> exception). By giving you a linking exception for your contribution, you
>> would be given the same chance of using XMLVM for your commercial
>> ventures.
>>
>> With one important difference: they only have the source under the GPL
> with linking exception. And from the earlier discussion it seems that the
> linking exception is not transferrable to others. (Transferrability would
> effectively defeat its purpose.)
>
> At the same time the XMLVM team is able to relicense the whole package
> under a commercial license.
>
> I am not saying that this is a problem, it is simply a property of a
> GPL/commercial project.
>
> Best Regards,
> Gergely
>
>
>
>
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